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News Captain Pike Has Been Cast
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Is that the one with bastard Bolton and a girl with kung fu hair? They lost me at the commercial. And I have seen pretty much all of MCU TV. Instead of Inhumans they should have added Legion to MCU (I know, I know, X-men are coming to MCU eventually, anything X-Men related may become MCU anyway)
Hunter just wasn't important enough to even take him into consideration, when recasting the part. I'm kind of disappointed that DSC went with remind-you-of, instead of just getting someone great for the part in their own right, like the JJ Abrams movies did. I'm sure this casting choice will work out fine, but I really don't care for these nostalgic offerings. Yesterday's gone, just do and be your own thing ... live in the present.
Sorry if this has been reported already, did a quick scan of the forum and didn't see it.
http://www.startrek.com/article/meet-discoverys-captain-pike
http://www.startrek.com/article/meet-discoverys-captain-pike
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It wasn't a bad show and he played a good part, it just never caught the publics imagination.
He also never said a word in it until the last episode, it was all done by sign language and facial expressions.
Black Bolts power in the Marvel Universe is that his voice generates incredibly powerful sound waves.
They didn't just cast him because of the resemblance. He's a great actor as well.
I have no clue who he is, but he kinda resembles Jeffrey Hunter and some of you guys vouch for him so I'm satisfied for now.
Not that Pine or Quinto aren't great actors, but you can't entirely say they weren't chosen because they at least do a very good job looking like Shatner and Nimoy
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But wont this interfere with him filming the second season of Inhumans? 
But wont this interfere with him filming the second season of Inhumans?
Firstly, second season is unlikely.
Secondly, it wouldn't interfere anyway, since his role is probably going to be somewhere between a single scene to couple episodes at most.
Abrams didn't have much choice in casting that way, because it's the first time TOS got a reboot and I'm sure there was a lot of pressure to do so. Unlike Hunter, Shatner & Nimoy had a great deal to do with TOS and its success and status as a pop icon. To say nothing of ALL of the Kirk/Spock/TOS Crew knickknacks and other souvenir items CBS & Paramount have been pushing for so very long. Having Kirk & Spock, especially, look familiar was required for product recognition, but I would've loved it had Spock & Kirk been different for the reboots. Fact is, they just weren't going to be given that chance for said reasons. But Jeffrey Hunter ... who the hell's he? Some one-off that didn't even play him the 2nd time he appeared in the original series, so looking like him's just not important.
Yeah definitely looks the part. Looking forward to more casting announcements. Spock? Number One? 
He's at least a little more age appropriate than Greenwood was.
Part of the reason why I think it makes more sense that the Kelvin universe should be regarded a separate timeline even before Nero's arrival is because of the age shift with Pike. ST09 is supposed to take place chronologically around the same time as "The Cage" when we saw Pike in his late 30s, yet when we meet Pike trying to recruit Kirk he's a man well into his 50s. I get why Abrams made that decision to cast an older actor because Pike in the story plays more of a fatherly mentor role for Kirk, which continued into STID.
Looks like Pike to me! Excited to hear who they'll cast to round out that crew.
I'm not on any crusade against how they cast Pike for Discovery; I just wish they hadn't been so cute about making sure he looked like Hunter. But overall, yes, I hate it when STAR TREK has a chance to do something without regard for how things were done before and backs down in favour of a nostalgia fest. This thing with Pike is just symptomatic of that ...
I'd take the view that if you CAN get a good actor AND said actor looks similar to the previous one to play the role, you should, as a homage to the memory people have of the original. UNLESS it allows you to tell a better story. Pike isn't in DSC to scene-steal from our new heroes, he's there to show they exist in the same universe as TOS, whilst acting the part well enough to not disrespect the character.
Now if this was a reboot featuring the adventures of Pike's Enterprise, then yes feel free to change stuff up, like NuBSG and a female Starbuck, NuLIS and female Doctor Smith and NuRoseanne where we all realise how fucking shit Roseanne was in the first place.
Whereas I get annoyed when Star Trek has a chance to do something that honors its foundations, and instead goes off on a tangent with no regard for how things were done before. Guess there's no pleasing everyone!...
(Where Pike is concerned, as I said, at present I have no basis for an opinion on Anson Mount's acting. But I'm certainly not going to hold it against him that he resembles the original!...)
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